Ottaviano Scalone

Ottaviano Scalone (1892-1935) was an Italian-American Black Hand extortionist.

Biography
Ottaviano Scalone was born in Messina, Sicily in 1902, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was eleven years old. Scalone joined the Black Hand extortionists with the goal of terrorizing people into paying him protection money, and he became the boss of an apartment area near Wilfred Lennox Park. In 1935, Scalone was murdered by Cuneo crime family gunmen when they attacked his territory.